Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
Ever since killing the Fisherman one year ago, Julie James is still haunted by images of him after her. When her best friend Karla wins free tickets to the Bahamas, Julie finds this a perfect opportunity to finally relax. But someone is waiting for her. Someone who she thought was dead. Someone who is out again for revenge.
A textbook example of a diminishing-returns slasher sequel that recycles nearly every beat from its predecessor with minimal invention. The Bahamas setting provides a modest visual change of scenery but the tropical backdrop is largely wasted, and the storm-isolation premise is a thin contrivance. The plot is riddled with conveniences and logic gaps even by slasher standards. Acting is serviceable at best from Jennifer Love Hewitt and the supporting cast, with broadly drawn new characters. Cinematography is competent genre work—some atmospheric storm lighting—but nothing distinctive. Novelty is genuinely low: it retreads the hook-killer formula beat for beat, adding little beyond a change of location. The ending attempts a twist that lands as more ridiculous than shocking, consistent with the film's overall by-the-numbers execution.